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Hi all,

I have written a perl script to read emails in my Outlook inbox and
then parse the emails based on part of the Subject line. What I need
to add is moving the emails to one of my Personal Folders after I am
finished with it, so that multiple days worth of data are not scanned.
This is so that when/if I go on vacation I don't have to worry about
putting the program on somebody elses PC. Anybody have any thoughts
here?

Thanks in advance,
Jim

Quoth (Jim):
> I have written a perl script to read emails in my Outlook inbox and
> then parse the emails based on part of the Subject line. What I need
> to add is moving the emails to one of my Personal Folders after I am
> finished with it, so that multiple days worth of data are not scanned.
> This is so that when/if I go on vacation I don't have to worry about
> putting the program on somebody elses PC. Anybody have any thoughts
> here?

How are you accessing the inbox? Win32::OLE? Reading the file directly?
I would have thought you could move mail between folders in the same way.

Ben

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Ben Morrow <> wrote in message news:<c8ljh8$ffd$>...
> Quoth (Jim):
> > I have written a perl script to read emails in my Outlook inbox and
> > then parse the emails based on part of the Subject line. What I need
> > to add is moving the emails to one of my Personal Folders after I am
> > finished with it, so that multiple days worth of data are not scanned.
> > This is so that when/if I go on vacation I don't have to worry about
> > putting the program on somebody elses PC. Anybody have any thoughts
> > here?
>
> How are you accessing the inbox? Win32::OLE? Reading the file directly?
> I would have thought you could move mail between folders in the same way.
>
> Ben

I am using Win32::OLE. And thanks to another reader I was able to
learn the command to use and the way of defining a folder. Command is
$item->Move(folder) where item is the email message. Also since I am
using MAPI the folder is defined like this ":ersonal
Folders::folder"

Jim

Jim